Inge Maas opened the series of MA thesis presentations with her work, “(Re)framing Sustainability in National AI Strategies: Austria, France and Ireland.” Examining the national AI strategies of Austria, France, and Ireland, she shows how sustainability is strategically reframed to reconcile the environmental costs of AI with the EU’s Twin Transition agenda, primarily through narratives of efficiency, selective visibility, and promises of future technological solutions.

She was followed by Pablo Valenzuela Astudillo, who presented “Unveiling Technoscientific Promises: The Arrival of a Hyperscale Data Centre in Talavera de la Reina (Spain).” Through a case study of a proposed hyperscale data centre in Talavera de la Reina, he analyses how promissory regimes and logics of scalability mobilise local support for digital infrastructures, while activists and residents negotiate, contest, and rework the futures these projects seek to install.

Finally, Roxana Demeter presented “Towards Long-Term Nuclear Waste Governance: Future-Making at the Centre de Stockage de la Manche and the Bois Noirs Limouzat Mine.” Challenging the assumption that low-level nuclear residues constitute a solved governance problem, she examines how actors at two legacy nuclear sites in France engage in practices of future-making that shape responsibility, memory, valuation, and governance across extended temporal horizons.

It is wonderful to see such excellent research emerging from the INNORES project and to witness how these three theses advance its core concerns from distinct yet complementary perspectives.